Formal verification methods are used only sparingly in software development. The most successful methods to date are based on the use of model checking tools. To use such he user ...
Synchronous reactive formalisms associate concurrent behaviors to precise schedules on global clock(s). This allows a non-ambiguous notion of "absent" signal, which can ...
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Robert de Simone, Yves Sor...
There have been significant advances on formal methods to verify complex systems recently. Nevertheless, these methods have not yet been accepted as a realistic alternative to the ...
: Retrenchment is introduced as a liberalisation of refinement intended to address some of the shortcomings of refinement as sole means of progressing from simple abstract models t...
Meadows recently proposed a formal cost-based framework for analysis of denial of service. It was showed how some principles that have already been used to make cryptographic prot...